Strengths

• Fertile agricultural land
• Suitable climate for the production of variety of agricultural and horticultural products
• Availability of labour force
• Ensured scope in goatery
• Sufficient availability of ponds and reservoirs for aquaculture
• Vast availability of natural and forest resources
• Literacy level is higher in case of male and females as compared to state average
• Most of the villages have schools
• Community based Institutions are formed and strengthened the traditional village committees, youth clubs, women SHGs
• Higher women literacy rate as compared to state and India’s avaerage
• Significant share in the total workforce
• Increasing participation in PRIs

Weaknesses

• Poor and inadequate irrigation facilities
• Rainfed agriculture
• Pest infestation
• Poor marketing and inadequate storage facilities
• Lift and minor irrigation schemes are not working properly
• Depletion of ground water level
• Poor facilities for the marketing of milk discourages people to adopt dairy farming
• Depletion of grazing lands
• Outsourcing of fingerlings leads to poor quality of fingerlings
• Only 27.5 percent of the cattle population is breedable
• Poor basic facilities for people residing in forest and sanctuary area
• No legal rights are given to dwellers for the collection of NTFP and MFP
• Insufficient tenurial rights in community forestry
• Compensatory forest plantation has not been adequately taken up
• Most of the schools buildings do not have proper infrastructure and boundary walls
• Scarcity of teachers and other staff in the schools. Untrained teachers are appointed
• Most of the tribals, SCs and poor children do not have access to the basic education
• Poor coordination between teachers, PRI members and parents
• Non- accountability of teachers towards performance of the students
• Involvement of illiterates in particular and other people in general in govt. programmes is very low
• Percentage of population BPL is very high
• Non- availability of work for labourers in the village
• Easy availability of liquor results into household violence and antisocial activities
• Out of 154 anganwadi centres only 34 centres have building
• Inadequate remuneration against significant contribution in workforce, particularly in NTFP collection and agricultural activities
• Social stigma
• Dowry-related torture and deaths
• Post-rehabilitation issues
• KVK is linked with host institution and other central research institutes in the state
• Linked with district for all technical programmes
• Agricultural productivity can be enhanced through farm mechanization
• Orchard based farming system provide scope for QPM production
• Predominance of upland – scope for crop/enterprise  diversification with irrigation facility

Opportunities

• Irrigation potential ranges from 25 to 40 percent in different blocks
• Agricultural productivity can be enhanced through farm mechanization
• Establishment of village level mandis will provide better price of produce to the farmers
• Strengthening of Agricultural Department
• Better storage facilities (like cold storage) stop distress sale and farmers will get better prices for their produce
• New gardens of mango, litchi and other suitable fruit crops can be established.
• Goatery can be promoted with the present natural resource availability
• Replacement of indigenous cattle population with the crossbred cattle leads to increase in milk production

• Farm ponds can be created under NREGS, and irrigation reservoirs can be utilized for fingerling production
• Optimal and need based use of NTFP to raise economic status of tribals and other forest dwellers
• Promotion of eco- tourism
• Possibility of creating adequate infrastructure with the help of industrial houses
• Residential facilities for teachers and staff in remote areas
• Optimum utilization of natural resources
• Optimum utilization of the scope of NREGS to stop migration of labour
• More focus on the capacity building of women SHGs
• Strengthening the Anganwadi system
• Social motivation and mobilization to minimize social pressure on women

Threats

• High dependency on rainfed agriculture and chemical farming
• Expansion of industries and mining activity will have multiple effects in the form of land availability of agriculture, pollution and labour shortage
• Declining interest of people in the in agricultural and allied activities
• Diversion of the labour force to other sectors of employment
• Growing industrial and mining activity further deplete natural grazing land
• Lack of interest of people in animal rearing and fisheries
• In some areas all tanks get dry from January to monsoon period
• Existing practices of forestry did not promote the production of species suitable for fuel purposes leading to further pressure on forests
• People alienated from forests are joining extremist/ Maoist groups
• Preference of people for private schools. Poor children may get discriminated due to this.
• Unemployment and poverty may lead to social disorders
• Unsustainability in livelihood through increasing dependency on government and private services
• Instability in traditional family systems
• Risk of increasing violence against women because of their growing exposure in traditionally male dominant activities/ occupations